{"id":230926,"date":"2023-03-14T19:59:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=230926"},"modified":"2023-03-14T19:59:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T14:29:04","slug":"wagner-group-of-mercenaries-why-joe-biden-and-us-congress-are-at-odds-over-designating-it-a-terrorist-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wagner-group-of-mercenaries-why-joe-biden-and-us-congress-are-at-odds-over-designating-it-a-terrorist-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Wagner Group of mercenaries: Why Joe Biden and US Congress are at odds over designating it a \u2018terrorist\u2019 group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article <\/span><b>\u201cWagner Group of mercenaries: Why Joe Biden and US Congress are at odds over designating it a \u2018terrorist\u2019 group\u201d<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> published in<\/span><b> Indian Express <\/b>on <b>14th March 2023<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tensions are escalating between the United States President and the US Congress as they debate over designating the Wagner Group \u2014 a shadowy private militia believed to be fighting for Russia against Ukraine in the ongoing battle between the two countries as a <\/span><b>Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO).<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><b>What is Foreign Terrorist Organization(FTO) designation by the US?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FTO is a designation for non-US organizations that are deemed to be involved in terrorist activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Section 219 of the US Immigration and Nationality Act, the Secretary of State can designate an organization as a foreign terrorist organization if the Secretary finds that<strong> 1)<\/strong> the organization is a foreign organization; <strong>2)<\/strong> the organization engages in terrorist activity or terrorism or <strong>3)<\/strong> threatens the security of United States nationals or the national security of the United States.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>What happens once an organization is designated as FTO?<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Once an organization is labelled as an FTO, it is unlawful for a person in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction of the United States to knowingly provide material support or resources to it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members and representatives of an FTO are inadmissible to the US and in certain circumstances, removable from the United States.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moreover, the funds of an FTO must be frozen and reported to the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cWagner Group of mercenaries: Why Joe Biden and US Congress are at odds over designating it a \u2018terrorist\u2019 group\u201d published in Indian Express on 14th March 2023 What is the News? Tensions are escalating between the United States President and the US Congress as they debate over&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wagner-group-of-mercenaries-why-joe-biden-and-us-congress-are-at-odds-over-designating-it-a-terrorist-group\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wagner Group of mercenaries: Why Joe Biden and US Congress are at odds over designating it a \u2018terrorist\u2019 group<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[10500],"class_list":["post-230926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-indian-express","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1702265024},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}